Hey everyone. Welcome to the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I am Dorenda Wilson. I'm married to Daryl. We have eight kids. We have six grandkids and we have been homeschooling

for over 24 years. So I can attest to the fact that in this homeschooling journey, there have

been many, many times where my kids were driving me crazy.

And it's a hard thing to talk about with homeschoolers, right?

It's one of those things where there's sort of like this stigma.

You don't want to tell another homeschooling mom that your kids are driving you.

You're crazy because that might lend itself to someone thinking you're doing you something wrong or you're

failing. And then there's that piece where we don't want to share it with anyone who isn't

homeschooling because I don't know about you, but I have gotten the strong feeling from

others when I've said anything negative about my kids

or about homeschooling or frustrations in my day. I've gotten that look that is something like

you made your bed, now you have to lay in it, right? You chose to homeschool, so you just have to

deal with the fallout from that. And, you know,

it really stinks. And so today I just want to talk about this topic, because again, as I've said in many

of my other podcasts, I think it's so important for us to be transparent, for us to be authentic,

but I also feel like we shouldn't leave it there,

just talking about the negative piece of it and the hard pieces of it. But we need to

encourage one another and spur one another on towards love and good works and to turn each

other as Christian moms back to the word of God.

What does God's word have to say about this?

Because there are answers in God's word, and there are people who have been walking this journey

longer than us, and they can give us some tools. And that's what I'm hoping to do today,

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